McCartney's O2 concert tickets snapped up in just 20 minutes
Sold out in under 20 minutes: Paul McCartney. Photo: Getty Images
Thursday October 29 2009
Tickets for Paul McCartney's O2 concert in December sold out in under 20 minutes.
The former Beatle will be coming to Dublin as part of a European leg that will see him play eight special arena shows across Europe.
It will be his first visit to these shores since his Back In The World tour of 2003, and with interest in The Beatles re-released material now peaking it is expected to be a show full of some of the greatest songs of the last half-century.
Macca's other shows will be in Hamburg, Berlin, Arnhem, Paris, Cologne and London where he will finish with his only British show of the year at the O2 Arena on December 22.
McCartney said he was planning on taking in many of the cities where The Beatles started on the road to superstardom.
"This is my chance to bring our current show home to where it all began.
"Starting in Hamburg, ending in London and rocking everywhere in between.
"I'm very much looking forward to ending the year on a high," he said.
Successful
It has been an extremely successful year for the Liverpool legend.
He was nominated for two Grammys earlier this year, and also headlined the US Coach-ella rock festival, at the tender age of 67.
McCartney also performed to mark the opening of The New Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, a gig that sold out in an amazing seven seconds, setting a new sales record with tickets being snapped up at a phenomenal rate of 600 per second.
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- Conor Feehan
